Success Academy Charter School - Bushwick
- 139 Menahan Street, Brooklyn
- Grades K-5
- Shannon Beatty, Principal
- 347-817-2017
About
Success Academy Charter School - Bushwick serves students in grades K-5 in Brooklyn. The school reports strong academic performance, with 95.0 percent of students demonstrating proficiency in ELA and 97.0 percent in Math, both figures well above the citywide 75th percentile for elementary schools. The school has an enrollment of 518 students, which is above the citywide median enrollment of 414.0 students. The Economic Need Index for the school is 83.0 percent, which is at the citywide median. The student population includes 52.0 percent English Language Learners, a figure well above the citywide 75th percentile of 26.0 percent, and 21.0 percent of students with Individualized Education Programs, which is near the citywide median of 23.0 percent. The school reports a 0.0 percent suspension rate, indicating a very low rate of disciplinary actions. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
Sources (5)
- NYC DOE Location Code Generating and Management System (LCGMS) · 2026-27 (export of 2026-08-22)
- NYC DOE School Quality Reports and Snapshot, 2024-25 · 2024-25
- New York State Education Department School Report Card · 2024-25
- NYC School Survey (parent and student responses)
- MySchools admissions directory, 2025-26 cycle · 2025-26 admissions cycle
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
95%
Math proficiency
97%
Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).
Attendance rate
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Avg class size (general ed)
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Avg class size (ICT)
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Community & climate
Demographics, attendance, school survey results, and DOE quality ratings.
Quality signals
NYC School Survey, 2023-24
This school has no published results in the 2025-26 NYC School Survey. These are its 2023-24 results.
Overall positive % is averaged across every Pos/Neg survey question per respondent group (school year 2023-2024). Survey topics are the DOE’s framework measures (each the average favorable response across its questions; expand a topic to see them and the citywide average); the dimension scores themselves are no longer in the public data file.[3]
Operational health
Attendance
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Chronic absenteeism
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Suspension rate
0%
Student body
Race / ethnicity[4]
- Asian 3%
- Black 16%
- Hispanic 74%
- White 4%
- Multiracial 2%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 54%
- Male 46%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
518
Economic Need Index
83%
Free / reduced lunch
78%
English learners
52%
Students with IEPs
21%
Financials
[8]What this school has to spend, and what it spends it on. Spending is not a measure of quality. Schools serving more students with higher needs receive more money.
Charter schools manage their own budgets rather than receiving a school allocation from the DOE, so the staffing and supplies breakdown the DOE publishes for district schools is not published for this school.
Spending
Total spend
$9.1MStudents: 558
19th percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$16,278
1st percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.